Tales from the Crypt S7 E6: Cold War (1996)

After losing their friend Cutter (John Salthouse) in a heist gone wrong, Ford (Ewan McGregor) and Cammy break up. Cammy gets a new lover named Jimmy (Colin Salmon), but Ford isn’t ready to let her go.

“Relationships aren’t about who’s right or wrong. Look, do you remember how you felt about each other when you were newlybleds? Do you want to feel the same way you felt at your marriage scare-emony? Good. Then let go of what you find eerie-tating about each other before it gross too far. Which is the kind of advice the young couple in tonight’s tale should take. They’re fiends and lovers whose relationship is clot between a rock and a horrid place. I call this one “Cold War.””

Directed by Andrew Morahan (who directed the videos for Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and “Last Christmas,” “Careless Whisper” for George Michael, “November Rain” for Guns ‘n Roses, “West End Girls” for Pet Shop Boys, “Get That Love” by Thompson Twins, “Vision of Love” by Mariah Carey and so many more videos) and Robin Bextor from a script by Scott Nimerfro, this pulls the classic EC Comics move of setting up one character as a monster only for the other characters to also be supernatural, as Jimmy is a vampire while Ford and Cammy are zombies.

This is based on “Cold War” from Tales from the Crypt #43, which was written by Carl Wessler and drawn by Jack Kamen. In that tale, a man marries into a clan of zombies.